5 essential Features of Systems Theory

5 essential Features of Systems Theory

1. An organisation is a system; which is partly economic, partly technical, partly political and partly social.

2. It consists of parts, each of which is a sub-system.

3. The organisation is itself part of a larger system the environment, society, government and so on.

4. There are interrelationships among the parts of each system so that a change in one part leads to a change in another.

5. It is the function of management to bring about the ‘integration of

(a) Different parts of each sub-system,

(b) The different sub-systems with the organisation,

(c) Among the different sub-systems themselves and

(d) Between the system and its environment.